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Hessie Jones is a seasoned digital strategist, author, tech geek and data junkie. She has spent the last 17 years on the internet in online publishing, banking, digital advertising and tech startups like Yahoo! Citi, Aegis Media, Cerebri AI, Humans for AI, Salsa AI and Rapp Collins. Hessie is the author of EVOLVE: Marketing (as we know it) is Doomed!. As a marketer, she saw things change rapidly when search and social started to change the game for advertising and decided to figure out how the new market dynamics would change corporate environments forever: in process, in culture and in mindset. She launched her own business, ArCompany which now advocates the need for business transformation through foundational understanding of AI and understanding its impacts in process, policy and jobs. ArCompany simplifies AI works with organizations to make them AI-ready.

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By Hessie Jones | December 19, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBESHessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
I had the chance to interview my colleague at ArCompany, Karen Bennet, a seasoned engineering executive in platform technology, open and closed source systems and artificial intelligence technology. A former engineering lead from Yahoo!, and part of the original team who brought Red Hat to success, Karen evolved with the technological revolution, utilizing AI in…

By Hessie Jones | November 24, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBESHessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
Imagine a future where you can communicate with your smartphone – or whatever digital extension of you exists at that time – through an evolved smart digital agent that readily understands you, your needs, and exists on your behalf to procure the things and experiences you want. What if it could do all this while protecting and securing your personal information,…

By Hessie Jones | October 29, 2018 Hessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
This is Part II of a two-part series of my interview with Kimera, an AGI technology company that is challenging our current systems: our global economic model, use digital and how that has to change for a collective path forward. Please see Part I: Kimera Seeks to Transform Humanity's Path through AGI and Cryptocurrency.
Hessie: There is this view that for AI to truly be transformational and…

By Hessie Jones | September 28, 2018 Hessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
This is Part I of a two-part series of my interview with Kimera Systems, an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) technology company that is challenging our current systems: our global economic model, how we currently use digital, and how that has to change for a collective path forward.
Today, we are witnessing an unrelenting turbulence in technology, concurrent with the human-induced threats…

By Hessie Jones | September 28, 2018 | CogWorld on FORBESHessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
This is Part II of a two-part series that explores the rise of Privacy by Design (PbD) from the basic framework, to its inclusion in the GDPR, to its application in business practices and infrastructure especially in the wake of Artificial Intelligence. Please read Part I: Will Privacy First Be the New Normal? We had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ann Cavoukian,…

By Hessie Jones | September 13, 2018 | CogWorld on FORBESHessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
This is Part I of a two-part series that explores the rise of Privacy by Design (PbD) from the basic framework, to its inclusion in the GDPR, to its application in business practices and infrastructure especially in the wake of Artificial Intelligence.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, former 3-Term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and currently…

By Hessie Jones | August 8, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on ForbesHessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
Digital Disruption is commonplace these days. It occurs so frequently that when it happens it’s not as impressive as it once was. However, it’s an incessant reminder to the C-suite of many traditional organizations of the need to transform in order to keep pace with a market that is unpredictable and in an environment that is far from stable.
Alfredo C. Tan,…

By Hessie Jones | July 28, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on ForbesHessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
This post references my recent presentation at Startupfest, Montreal. I've been studying the future of work for a number of years and it's now come full circle in an environment and among business leaders who are more accepting of what's in store in the coming decades and what they need to do to survive.
Currently, we live in this world of imbalance. Do you…

By Hessie Jones | July 28, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on ForbesHessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
How does technology alter an industry that is heavily regulated, with strong checks and balances and where information is heavily guarded? The real estate industry is comprised mainly of independent realtors, unified under brokerage houses and a nationwide real estate association. Within the confines of this oligopoly are rules to protect its players and ensure…

With Inmar Givoni, Anna Goldenberg, Karen Bennet & Hessie Jones
AI is accelerating its pace and with it, bringing us incredible benefits… but also vulnerabilities to individuals and society, real and yet to be revealed. This panel will discuss how AI has dramatically improved convenience, access to information, communication and expectations for everyone and society at large. But are we, as humans, slowly ceding control to the machines we’ve programmed? How will AI change the way we think about how…

By Hessie Jones | May 26, 2018Hessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
It was about a decade ago that this idea of Omnichannel began to take hold. Traditional retailers saw it as a "concept" as their predominantly bricks and mortars presence continued to be the focus channel to serve their customers. Fast forward to 2018 and Machine Learning is bringing this concept into fruition. By definition,
“Omnichannel promises to bring retailers closer to their customers…

By Hessie Jones, CogWorld Reporter, Toronto | April 23, 2018
More than ever before, the consumer has become fully aware of the extent to which they are being surveilled, and influenced or some would argue, manipulated. This post discusses the increasingly on-demand market and how data has enabled this. It also challenges the relationship between the business and its customers and introduces an era of more balanced control of data and the inevitable privacy and security regulations that will drive…

By Hessie Jones, CogWorld Reporter, Toronto | April 5, 2018
Customer Centricity is the promise of AI. It seems to be the holy grail that continues to elude business. Marketing solutions and systems integrators are trying to build technology frameworks for Next Best Action that take real-time consumer context into consideration. They're still falling short. But what if the only way to truly get to the heart of understanding the customer is to amass a huge amount of data, from different perspectives,…

By Hessie Jones, CogWorld Reporter, Toronto, and CoFounder, Salsa AI | March 21, 2018
I'm excited to share my journey with you, involving the brilliant minds I encounter and the emerging issues that need tackling. As the AI community grows, it's important to address some of the gaps we encounter in this nascent and highly experimental phase as companies, organizations and countries continue to figure their place in the world of AI.
The last decade of my career pushed me in the direction of social media…